No Nutritional Value

Rating: 2/10 (4 January 2006)

Ouch! Bay's Armageddon produced cringes, I'm sure.
This at least attempts to compose the references to other genre movies.
But it's all junk food, all the bacon stripped of the protein and nutrients, leaving us with the fatty bits.
Just take chunks of THX1138, Matrix Reloaded, Freejack, the 6th Day, etc., add some Jungian musings, mix it into the writing pot, roll cameras and cross the fingers. Stopping at the first false ending might have saved it.
Most annoying is the moralizing...the evil doctor explains away his modus operandi, the hunter explains his change of heart...Bay cannot conceive of visual storytelling, there's no vocabulary here but the most infantile of burbles.
The only bits of (minor) cinematic interest are the pans of the future LA skyline.